YouTube announced on Aug. 1 that it plans to flag videos containing “offensive” religious and “supremacist” content in an apparent effort to censor content creators who don’t align with politically correct dogma.

Google general counsel Kent Walker stated in a June op-ed for the Financial Times that YouTube was taking steps to censor “extremist” videos, even if they don’t violate the platform’s terms of service.

Under YouTube’s new censorship measures, if a video contains “controversial religious or supremacist content” that doesn’t necessarily violate any rules, it will be put in a “limited state” in which viewers cannot comment or like the video. Additionally, these types of videos cannot be monetized and they won’t appear in the “suggested” section.

YouTube will reportedly be working with left-wing NGOs such as the “No Hate Speech Movement,” the “Ant-Defamation League” and the “Institute for Strategic Dialogue” to determine which videos should be considered offensive. These same organizations regularly defame and besmirch right-wing personalities.

Consequently, conservative / libertarian / Christian content will likely be arbitrarily flagged as “offensive” by leftist social engineers. Our own YouTube channel, which contains several videos that could be considered “offensive” by social justice warriors, could be heavily censored or shut down to prevent “hate speech” (anything that doesn’t align with the degenerate leftist agenda) from being promulgated on the platform.

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Benjamin Knight, the founder of We the Vigilant and host of The Maverick Podcast, was born in Engelwood, New Jersey. He is a Bible believing Christian, a right-wing Libertarian and a nationalist who is dedicated to fighting back against cultural Marxism and globalism. In his free time, Knight enjoys triggering leftists, shooting guns and being an American.

This
gives undo power to shut down 1st amendment rights and business of
monetized web video production. Literally I can do a video critical of
say… a restaurant for serving unsafe food of some ethnicity or country
and said owner can flag me as offensive or “hate speech” and get it
made invisible basically and make no money from it?? I hate fascists
so if I do a video satirizing that fascism the offended fascist
anonymously gets me censored, unsearchable , unmonetized and no comments
or likes